The Solar Forest: Charging Station And Shady Spot For Electric Cars

The approaching age of electric vehicles presents us with a secondary, albeit significant, challenge: building accessible recharging stations with renewable energy. While we’re at it, can our parking lots be shady, please?

One solution may already have arrived. In Neville Mars’s dreamy design, appropriately dubbed the Solar Forest, large, leaf-shaped photovoltaic panels on branching “trees” will provide both shade and power-up plugs for electric cars relaxing on the parking lot underneath.

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  The American public can’t quite make up its mind either: according to a recent survey by BBMG…
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  photo: Crimson Renewable Energy
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  photo: FutureAtlas.com via flickr
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